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Day 1: Wednesday, December 2nd 2020

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CST GMT
9:00-9:10 am 3:00-3:10 pm Intro — Ken Paller & Eitan Schechtman
9:10-9:50 am 3:10-3:50 pm Session 1: At-home sleep studies – technology and applications

Philippe Peigneux (chair)
  • Technology for TMR at home — Nathan Whitmore (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • How odor helps us optimize learning while we sleep – from lab research to real life — Jürgen Kornmeier (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Lessons from COVID and beyond — Labs are welcome to share how home applications have been working (10 min)
  • Open discussion (10 min)
9:50-10:25 am 3:50-4:25 pm Session 2: Sleep-reactivation for well-being

Bjorn Rasch (chair)
  • TMR-TRAUMA study: Sleep as a window to target traumatic memories — Hein van Marle (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Activating the concept of “relaxation” during sleep using relaxation-related words — Jonas Beck (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Open discussion (15 min)
10:25-10:35 am 4:25-4:35 pm Break
10:35-11:05 am 4:35-5:05 pm Smaller discussion groups – part A (breakout rooms)

  • File-drawer effects and replication in TMR (chair: James Antony)
  • Importance of REM sleep for memory (chair: Delphine Oudiette)
  • Harnessing sleep for improving wellbeing (chair: Jasmine Harris)
11:05-11:20 am 5:05-5:20 pm Reporting back from the groups
11:20-12:15 pm 5:20-6:15 pm Session 3: Novel TMR findings

Monika Schönauer (chair)
  • How does the impact of TMR evolve across a month — Martyna Rakowska (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • The effect of odor-induced memory reactivation during sleep on relevant and irrelevant information — Christine Barner (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • The effect of TMR on generalisation in language learning — Chloe Newbury (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Tactile stimulation during sleep — Philippe Peigneux (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Open discussion (15 min)
12:15-12:20 pm 6:15-6:20 pm Closing notes and explanation about gather.town
12:20-1:00 pm 6:20-7:00 pm Social interaction: https://gather.town/app/MU5U1AKLaaovKp9U/ISRW
Password: TMR

Day 2: Thursday, December 3rd 2020

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/99968104716   Password: TMR

CST GMT
9:00-9:35 am 3:00-3:35 pm Session 4: Tracking sleep reactivation

Eitan Schechtman (chair)
  • Endogenous memory reactivation during sleep in humans is clocked by slow oscillation-spindle complexes — Thomas Schreiner (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Identifying reactivation after REM TMR – Mahmoud Eid Abdelhafez Abdellahi (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Open discussion (15 min)
9:35-10:30 am 3:35-4:30 pm Session 5: Probing sleep’s role in consolidation

Anna Schapiro (chair)
  • A complex associative graph-network task to probe memory processing during sleep — Gordon Feld (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • The effect of Zolpidem and the role of different sleep stages in reactivating a declarative memory in humans — Julia Carbone (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • No impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications: A registered report — David Philip Morgan (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Related memory consolidation during sleep — Kyle Kainec (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Open discussion (15 min)
10:30-10:40 am 4:30-4:40 pm Break
10:40-11:10 am 4:40-5:10 pm Smaller discussion groups – part B (breakout rooms)

  • Linking physiology (oscillations) with psychology (reactivation) (chair: Bernhard Staresina)
  • Importance of REM sleep for anything but memory (chair: Gareth Gaskell)
  • Technology and methods for at-home TMR (chair: Susan Florczak)
11:10-11:25 am 5:10-5:25 pm Reporting back from the groups
11:25-12:10 pm 5:25-6:10 pm Session 6: Riding the slow-waves

Penny Lewis (chair)
  • Short- and long-term responses of sleep spindles and slow waves to auditory closed loop stimulation — Lucia Talamini (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • COsleep – Closed- and Open-loop sleep stimulation and recording in full-PSG using open sleep hardware — Frederik D. Weber (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A). SLIDES
  • TMR of transitive inference on peaks and troughs of slow oscillations has opposing effects — Lorena Santamaria (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Open discussion (15 min)
12:10-12:45 pm 6:10-6:45 pm Session 7: Lucid dreaming

Martin Dresler (chair)
  • The Ins and outs of communicating with dreamers – Karen Konkoly (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Sensory processing in lucid dreamers with narcolepsy — Delphine Oudiette (7-min talk + 3-min Q&A)
  • Open discussion (15 min)
12:45-1:00 pm 6:45-7:00 pm Closing discussion and remarks – Ken Paller